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Re: Yamaha MOTOROiD

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Post by ubercow13 »

VBprogrammer wrote: post #52
bayindirh wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I understand that performance engines need unobstructed exhausts up to a certain point, but pipes tuned to amplify this sound is distracting at best, damaging your ears at worst. I don't like them. They become hazardous in tunnels, underpasses and other closed spaces. Ultra loud pipes kill my ears' locating capabilities and I can't mentally place the motorcycle to the correct place so I won't unintentionally endanger…

I don't know what to tell you, I'm normally a pretty sensible type. Stick to the speed limits, have a small sensible car etc. But on a motorbike the noise of the exhaust while riding a motorcycle is intoxicating!

Lots of 'intoxicating' things are incredibly selfish or even endanger others, that doesn't seem like a justification for anything.

Re: Yamaha MOTOROiD

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Post by DandyDev »

CraigJPerry wrote: post #5

I can’t wait for electric motorbikes to be more diverse and advanced. I used to be a “my loud exhaust helps me to be seen” kinda guy. Until one day, sat in standstill traffic in my car on the M74 motorway just outside Glasgow, a rider on a BMW S1000XR, with the same loud exhaust as on mine, filtered past the window and I didn’t hear him until he was level with my rear passenger door. Exhausts sound great, i love the…

To me, loud motor cycles seem like a sign of compensating for small genitals. Like many others in this thread, those loud sounds induce a huge amount of physical and mental stress.

Re: Yamaha MOTOROiD

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Post by gauchojs »

beebeepka wrote: post #6

Wow, this looks great. Straight out of some sci-fi anime I absolutely love motorcycles. Sadly, most people into seem to be in the game just for the sound alone. I have very, very strong feelings about the vast majority of this "community" and cannot wait for electric to take over. Sorry for the rant. I have to endure a lot of racers during all hours. It's hardly pleasent

I love the sound of engines and find videos likehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baGM9StRJfI very relaxing. (Of course, living near a busy street and having to endure tens of bikes at the same time is another thing).

Re: Yamaha MOTOROiD

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Post by rlonstein »

martyvis wrote: post #77
NikolaNovak wrote: post #67

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I owned ride 6-7 different motorcycles, and I believe there's a special place in hell for those who put on loud aftermarket exhausts. Sure, it sounds nice to them . It shows an astonishing disregard to thousands of other people they impact daily. Let alone your next 10 neighbour houses who put up with it on consistent basis. ... :O There's no increased safety factor - there's no real location or distance clue such lo…

I obviously don't talk to enough bikers. This is the first timeI have even heard the idea, I'm 57 and certainly have known a lot of books riders, that people like loud bikes because they think it makes them safer.

My reply to that (as a motorcyclist of 30+ years) is, "If loud pipes save lives, imagine what learning to ride that thing would do?"

Re: Yamaha MOTOROiD

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Post by pjmlp »

martyvis wrote: post #77
NikolaNovak wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I owned ride 6-7 different motorcycles, and I believe there's a special place in hell for those who put on loud aftermarket exhausts. Sure, it sounds nice to them . It shows an astonishing disregard to thousands of other people they impact daily. Let alone your next 10 neighbour houses who put up with it on consistent basis. ... :O There's no increased safety factor - there's no real location or distance clue such lo…

I obviously don't talk to enough bikers. This is the first timeI have even heard the idea, I'm 57 and certainly have known a lot of books riders, that people like loud bikes because they think it makes them safer.

I never heard safety being ever related to it, only being the motorbike version of tuning culture.

Re: Yamaha MOTOROiD

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Post by oh_sigh »

Jyaif wrote: post #54

The "Active Mass Center Control System" made me wonder: is it possible to make a passive balancing system that would keep a two wheel bike standing up?

Yes, most bikes have them already - a kick stand.

Re: Yamaha MOTOROiD

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Post by laurent92 »

Aachen wrote: post #22
greyhound wrote: post #10

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Also, the "utterly intoxicating" sound is often forced onto others without their consent. Like playing your music through a loudspeaker in a public place. So yeah, go electric!

> Like playing your music through a loudspeaker in a public place. You're in luck, that's exactly what electric cars will do instead of being quiet!

They will be creative. “My car has the copyrighted Justin Bieber sound” will be the new trend. Or should I say “auditive experience”.

Re: Yamaha MOTOROiD

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Post by dorchadas »

jacobolus wrote: post #56
CraigJPerry wrote: post #5

I can’t wait for electric motorbikes to be more diverse and advanced. I used to be a “my loud exhaust helps me to be seen” kinda guy. Until one day, sat in standstill traffic in my car on the M74 motorway just outside Glasgow, a rider on a BMW S1000XR, with the same loud exhaust as on mine, filtered past the window and I didn’t hear him until he was level with my rear passenger door. Exhausts sound great, i love the…

> Exhausts sound great, i love the sound of a nice engine, it’s utterly intoxicating Loud motorcycle engines are the sound of the world’s hugest assholes making their giant fart in the public’s face.

Right up there with truck ones. We got one who drives by our house every night at around 9:30 and it's so freaking loud the windows shake.

Re: Yamaha MOTOROiD

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Post by hotz »

mrweasel wrote: post #65
hamoid wrote: post #40

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To me the sound of those big bikes is a form of terrorism. They rise my blood pressure, increase stress levels and make me hate. Try living somewhere where every 20 minutes such bikes make the windows of your flat shake and you can't hear your TV or your partner talking until the bike is gone. Why do I have to suffer this every day of my life? I can't wait until the ICE is part of our primitive past.

Some motorcycle have an insane high volume bass sound that make me physically sick. If the rider thinks it helps them get noticed in traffic, then fine, but then they should also have on a hi-vis jackets and helmet, which most don’t.

Hi-viz doesn't work though. I use to look like a walking highlighter, I might as well have been invisible. Put on aftermarket exhaust and people know I'm there. The difference in behaviour was crazy.
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